Places Edited by inspector pinto

A tiny museum dedicated exclusively to the tiny art that decorates matchboxes.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

An unusual double-stelae obelisk with ancient and mysterious origins.

This remnant of an ancient Persian city is considered to be the world's largest single-span brick vault arch.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.